SOVIET SENTENCES
“COOK WRECKERS” TO DIE T> RUBBISH IN FOOD. ‘ ‘ UNDERMINING ’•' ACCUSATION. (Times Cable.) (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 13. The Riga correspondent of “The Times” says that what the Soviet press describes • as the intolerably filthy conditions of industrial kitchens and the inedibility of food served to workers in restaurants in Moscow, have resulted in five “cook wreckers’ ’ being sentenced to death, and seven others being imprisoned for terms of IS months to eight years. After a demonstrative four days’ trial, the victims, apparently scapegoats selected for their suitable nonproletarian origins, including Mikhail Oshkin, an ex-Czarist officer, and a landowner, were sentenced to death. His two sons were imprisoned. Witnesses testified that soups . and other dishes regularly contained quantities of rubbish, nails, hair and glass. The court declared that it had been proved tliat the accused mixed these in the food for the purpose of discrediting the Soviet and undermining State industry.
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Northern Advocate, 14 July 1933, Page 5
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